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by jemmyw
209 days ago
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> Perhaps proprietary closed source development is better Perhaps... > Open source development should take some lessons if they want to be successful A lot of people who write the gui stuff for Linux do it because they want to. Success is not necessarily the same metric as a company making a product. There are companies working within the space and I doubt the licensing really makes much difference to the outcome (i.e. your Google example) > If development for X is ceasing now, there isn't time to experiment on finding the true successor. Why? Again, the people working on it because they want to don't need to do anything, they can experiment. Someone can still fix up issues in X. Some companies will fund the development of things that are important to them. You make it sound like the oss community should be acting like one entity to achieve something, but there is no overarching goal nor a reason for there to be one. People will continue pulling in different directions. |
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Think about how many people might want to write for it if it had a compelling ui stack, tho